Apollo 14 Summary . ... The Search for Cone Crater . ... Crew Alan B. Shepard, Jr., commander . ... Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot . Apollo 14 Animations . ... Shepard and Mitchell were out to collect bedrock samples from the rim of Cone and, in the process, to see how difficult it was to climb the hill. ... Shepard may have been thinking that he wouldn't have time for the little surprise he'd planned; and, certainly, he and Mitchell were annoyed that they hadn't found the rim of Cone. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Footprints on Another World . ... 20.07.2002 . ... Credit: Apollo 11 , NASA Explanation: On July 20th, 1969 , humans first set foot on the Moon . Taken from a window of their Apollo 11 lunar module, the Eagle, this picture shows the footprints in the powdery lunar soil made by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin . ... July . ... July 2002 . ... 2001 2002 . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Apollo 11 . Publications with words: Moon - Apollo 11 . ...

FEW DAYS Well I pitched my tent on this campground Few days , few days And I give old Satan another round And I am going home I can't stay in these diggings Few days , few days Lord I can't stay in these diggings and I am going home Although I like the diggings here I won't stay here ...

Full Moon 106k gif . Another full Moon 300k jpg . nice Moon image with features labeled html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ... Galileo images . ...

... Another full Moon 300k jpg . Several of my own images including a large full moon mosaic and some lunar close-ups html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ...

... Alien Life . ... During a mission planned to last a Martian year (nearly two of our years) after landing , Curiosity will use its instruments to investigate whether this area of Mars has ever enjoyed conditions suitable for life , especially the presence of liquid water.Lower layers of Aeolis Mons could reveal there was once a lake within Gale Crater long ago.But this is just the beginning of what ... Methane Not Detected by Curiosity Rover Does Not Rule Out Life on Mars . ... Astronotes...

... In this final issue of the year, we consider the Moon's alien surface features, (so different from those we're used to on Earth) and review the golden age of lunar exploration. ... From 1959 (when the Luna 1 probe made the first flyby of the Moon) until 1976 (when Luna 24 returned the last lunar sample to Earth), 32 unmanned probes and 9 manned missions to the Moon or near-Moon space were successfully carried out. ... Luna 1 . ... First flyby of Moon . ... Flyby; first photographs of Moon's farside ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Eugene A. Cernan (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7. On his second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. ... Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. ...

Comedi Documentation . ... Right to the source: #include <stdio.h> /* for printf() */ #include <comedilib.h> int subdev = 0; /* change this to your input subdevice */ int chan = 0; /* change this to your channel */ int range = 0; /* more on this later */ int aref = AREF_GROUND; /* more on this later */ int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { comedi_t *it; lsampl_t data; it=comedi_open("/dev/comedi0"); comedi_data_read(it,subdev,chan,range,aref,&data); printf("%d\n",data); return 0; } . ...

On,off position switching is done to remove standing waves from the resulting spectra. ... 1,5,10,20,25,50,100 samples corresponding to great circle angular offsets of .004,.02,.04,.07,.09,.18, and .35 degrees. ... Page 1: rms vs great circle offset. ... Page 2: rms vs little circle offset. ... The rms increase correlates better with great rather than little circle offsets. the 1 usec standing wave starts to be seen in the .07 degree offsets. a .9 usec standing wave is seen at .35 degrees offset. ...

... There is a significant undiagnosed problem that can occur in time series datasets. ... The data were organized in packets inside the HSP, and were treated as packets all the way through the system until the HST ground system at STScI reformatted them into a simple time series. ... Extensive analyses were performed by the HSP team and by experts in the operation of the Science Data Formatter (SDF), the packet interface to which the HSP sends data. ...

... Archives . ... News and related stories . ... Another rabbit I missed came to a realization by a friend, who was sure that I already knew this ?call for papers? notice for the special issue of the signal processing magazine (SPM). ... The slog has some SPM article review posts, as you recall. ... I believed that research topics in signal processing is very strongly associated with astronomical data analysis. ... hlee on Do people use Fortran? ... Chandra Blog . ... What?s new . ...

... Subject: Mountaineering on Mars, Dunsink, Moon, ISS, Meteorites, Sun Talk, Space contest . Date: 18 September 2012 18:16:21 BST . ... IAA LECTURE: "MOUNTAINEERING€аON MARS", Wed 19 Sep. ... Dublin City Cultures Evening in Dunsink Observatory, €а Dunsink Lane,€а€а€а Castleknock,€аDublin 15, on FRIDAY 21st SEPTEMBER,€аas part of€аtheir public outreach program. ... See . ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2201997/Dark-energy-mystery-solved-Researchers-claim-99-996-sure-real.html . ...

... Hence, this could lead to sources being spuriously treated as being the same one, although it is currently believed that the offsets will change very little from one exposure to another within an observation. If this is confirmed, then omsrclistcomb may eventually correct the positions when the master source-list table has been produced- otherwise omatt will attempt to correct the positions for each source-list, although this clearly won't be possible when the image only contains a few stars. ...

... The frequency and time resolution connected by the (a) Kotelnikov-Shannon theorem (b) Heisenberg uncertainty principle (c) probability density (d) Euler equation 5. The window (Gabor) transform differs from wavelet-transform because (a) the first one doesn't allow to detect the changes of spectrum in time (b) the first one doesn't allow to reconstruct the function from it's decomposition (c) wavelet-transform is continuous (d) the resolution of wavelet-transform is adapted to the frequency 6. ...

Next: Basic principles of Up: Time Series Analysis Previous: Time Series Analysis . In spite of enormous amounts of existing software and literature on time series analysis (TSA), only comparatively little work has been done concerning those time series which are most often encountered in astronomy, namely unevenly sampled series. Hence, our first reason for yet another TSA package is to provide tools to handle such series. ... A summary of the commands and their syntaxes is listed in Sect. ...

Michele Bannister . Other research . ... The mutual events of Haumea . The dwarf planet Haumea is the parent of a collisional family that includes its two moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka. ... The arid and windswept McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are carpeted with the polygons of patterned ground , a geological formation that is also seen on the northern plains of the planet Mars. ... I worked to understand the influence that buried masses of ice have on the development of patterned ground. ...

Bill Boroski, Terry Sager, Chuck Wilson, Angie Prosapio, and Steve Bastian worked their tails off to accomplish the alignment work needed for the next dark run. ... Terry and Chuck set lines for sighting from the windscreen, across the mirror cell. ... Bill and Angie zero out the telescope position. Chuck and Terry begin taking measurements. And more measurements.. ... Staying the extra day and putting in the extra effort made for a successful trip. ...

Lidar experiment cover story . ... Delta-2 launching vehicle delivered on a flight trajectory to the Mars the Polar Lander spacecraft. ... The main scientific goals are: Martian surface research, especially its light fractures and atmosphere research. ... The atmospheric sounding instrument aboard Mars Polar Lander is the LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, developed by team of Space Research Institute, RAS. The LIDAR system is a laser sounder located on the Mars Polar Lander deck. ...